Chatelaine-hook.



No. 703,822. Patented July I, I902.

L. B. PRAHAR. CHATELAINE HOOK. (Ap ilication flied Mar. 5, 1902.)

(no Model.)

N'rn STATES A LOUIS B. PRAHAR, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

CHATELA|NE=HOOK.'

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 703,822, dated July 1, 1902.

Application filed March 5, 1902.

To all whont it may concern:

Be it known that I, LoUIs B. PRAHAR, a citizen of the United States, and aresident of the city of New York, borough of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings andState of'New York, have invented a new andlmproved Chatelaine-Hook, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The purpose of the invention is to provide an effective and simple form of chatelainehook, which may be made of three pieces and without springs and which will be positive in its locking and unlocking action.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combination" of' the several parts, as will be hereinafter fully set forth, and pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forminga part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a front elevation of theim proved chatelaine-hook. Fig. 2 isa longitudinal section through the hook, the clamping member being shown locked in clamping position and the section being taken practically on the line 2 2 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is alongitudinal section through the hook, the clamping member being shown in open position; and Fig. at is a longitudinal section taken practically on the line 4E at of Fig. 3.

The body of the hook is usually made of one piece of metal bent upon itself to form a front memberA and a rear member B. The front member is shown longer than the rear member and as terminating in an open eye 10, and said front member is further provided with rearwardly-extending side flanges ll.

The clamping member 0 consists of a plate bent transversely upon itself to form a headsection 12, having teeth-12 at its free end facing in direction of and adapted for engagement with the front face of the rear body member B, and a foot-section 13. The two sections of theclamping member are at angles to each other, and when said clamping member is-inposition in the body of the device one section inclines toward the inner face of the rear body member B, while the other section bears against the inner surface of the forward body member A, and said clamping member 0 rocks when either head Serial No. 96,799. (No model.)

or foot section'is brought in contact with the body member A. Preferably the head-section 12 of the clamping member C is of greater length than'the foot-section 13, and the two sections bein-gat angles to each other a transverse fulcrum-section 14 is obtained at one side of the clamping member, which when brought in contact with'the body member of the hook enables the clamping-section C to rock thereon.

Preferably'the fulcrum-section 14 of the clamping member is placed in engagement with the rear face of the frontbody member A, the lower portion of the said clamping member being between the flanges 11 of the body of the hook, which flanges serve to hold the clamping member 0 from movement in direction of its side edges.

A manipulating member D is provided for the clamping member 0, consisting of a pin vided with a working section 17 at its inner end, formed' by that portion of the pin 15 at such an angle to its body that as the manipulating m ember Dis turnedits working section 16 will be brought in depressing engagement first with one section of the clamping member 0 and then with the other section, holding the section of the clamping member 0 upon which it may rest against the inner face of the front body member A of the hook and the other section at an angle to said body member and pointing in direction of the rear body member B of the hook.

When the foot-section 13 of the clamping member 0 is pressed forward, the teeth of the head-section 12 by reason of the greater length of this section will be held in engagement with the rear body member B of the hook or any article which may have been-passed between the two body members A and B, asis' shown in Fig. 2, and when the Working section 17 of the manipulating member D'engages with the head-section 12 of the clamping member 0 the said section 12 will be pressed against the front body member A and the hook may then be readily removed from the support with which it was in clamping engagement, since the head-section 13 of the clamping member O is not sufficiently long to engage with the rear body member B at such time, as is shown in Fig. 3.

It will be observed that the hook described is of exceedingly simple character and is durable and positive in its operation and that by turning the manipulating member B the clamping member 0 may be instantly brought into or carried out of a clamping engagement with any object which may be between the body members A and B.

It will be observed that no springs are used in this construction and that the clamping member is practically free in every respect from the body member with which it may engage and that the rocking movement of the clamping member is brought about entirely by the engagement of the working section 17 of the manipulating member D with the sections of the clamping member.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. -A chatelaine-hook, consisting of front and rear frame members, an angular clamping member independent of the frame members and having rocking contact with one of them, and a manipulating member having movement in the frame and provided with a section arranged for depressing engagement with one or the other section of the clamping member, substantially as described.

2. A chatelaine-hook, consisting of front and rear frame members, an angular clamping member independent of the frame members and having rocking contact with one of them, and a manipulating member mounted to turn in the frame member and'provided with a section, arranged to travel over and to have depressing engagement with one or the other section of the clamping member, substantially as described.

3. A chatelaine-hook, comprising front and rear connected frame members, a clamping member consisting of a head and a foot section at angles to each other, and a fulcrumsection in engagement with the frame member, and a manipulating member consisting of a pin loosely passed through a frame mem her and through the fulcrum-section'of the clamping member, which pin is provided with an extension at angles to its main portion, which extension as the pin is turned has depressing engagement with one or the other section of the clamping member, for the purpose set forth.

4. A chatelaine-hook, consisting of front and rear members, an angular clamping member independent of the frame members and having rocking contact with the inner face of one of said frame members and means exteriorly operated over the rocking point of the clamping member to press one or the other of the sections of the angular clamping member against the frame member on which the clamping member is mounted, as and for the purpose described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

LOUIS B. PRAHAR.

Witnesses:

J. FRED. ACKER, JNo. M. BITTER. 

